In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, President Barack Obama claimed: “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar University — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing.”
Obama is not much of a “student of history” if he believes this. Almost every advance he attributes to the Muslims was due to someone else.
lees verder http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/debunking-obama-1001-islamic-inventions/

This letter was sent to Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett Packard Corporation, in
response to a speech
given by her on September 26, 2001.
You state, "when other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization
thrived on them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out
knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive,
and passed it on to others." This is a very important issue you raise, and it
goes to the heart of the matter of what Arab/Islamic civilization represents. I
reviewed a book titled
How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs, in which the
author lists the significant translators and interpreters of Greek science. Of
the 22 scholars listed, 20 were Assyrians, 1 was Persian and 1 an Arab. I state
at the end of my review: "The salient conclusion which can be drawn from
O'Leary's book is that Assyrians played a significant role in the shaping of the
Islamic world via the Greek corpus of knowledge. If this is so, one must then
ask the question, what happened to the Christian communities which made them
lose this great intellectual enterprise which they had established. One can ask
this same question of the Arabs. Sadly, O'Leary's book does not answer this
question, and we must look elsewhere for the answer." I did not answer this
question I posed in the review because it was not the place to answer it, but
the answer is very clear, the Christian Assyrian community was drained of its
population through forced conversion to Islam (by the Jizzya), and once
the community had dwindled below a critical threshold, it ceased producing the
scholars that were the intellectual driving force of the Islamic civilization,
and that is when the so called "Golden Age of Islam" came to an end (about 850
A.D.).
lees verder http://www.ninevehsoft.com/fiorina.htm

Uit een uitgebreid essay van dezelfde FjordmanAvicenna
(Ibn Sina) was a Persian physician who continued the course set by
al-Razi of mixing Greek, Indian, East Asian and Middle Eastern medical
learning. His book The Canon of Medicine from the early eleventh century
was a standard medical text for centuries. A striking number of the
Muslims who did leave some imprint upon the history of science were
Persians, who could tap into their proud pre-Islamic heritage. Historian
Ibn Khaldun admitted that “It is strange that most of the learned among
the Muslims who have excelled in the religious or intellectual sciences
are non-Arabs with rare exceptions.”It is also interesting to notice
that virtually all freethinkers and rationalists within the Islamic
world, such as Avicenna or Farabi, were at odds with Islamic orthodoxy
and were frequently harassed for this. Whatever discoveries they made
were more in spite of Islam than because of Islam
lees verder http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.nl/2007/10/islam-christian-europe-and-greek.html
Nog een uitgebreid essay van Fjordman over hetzelfde onderwerp
According to University of Columbia's Arabic and Islamic Studies Professor George Saliba, "Islamic science" virtually created the modern world. This is a bit odd, since Saliba has reviewed the work done by scholar Toby E. Huff, which concludes that Islamic countries largely failed in developing modern science. I have made a series of posts about this issue myself at Jihad Watch. These posts have also been translated to German, and I made a slightly longer essay about this available at the Gates of Vienna blog. I have also had the pleasure of reading Huff's book The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West, second edition. If anything, I believe he is sometimes too kind with the Islamic world.http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/11/fjordman-the-truth-about-islamic-science.html

Muslims 'saved' the work of Greek philosophers from destruction

The Arab transmission of the classics is a common and
persistent myth that Arabic commentators such as Avicenna and Averroes
'saved' the work of Aristotle and other Greek philosophers from
destruction. According to the myth, these works would otherwise have
perished in the long European dark age between fifth and the tenth
centuries. Thus the versions of Aristotle used in the West were
translations from the Arabic, which came from the South West of Europe
in the reconquest of Spain from the Muslims during the twelve and
thirteenth centuries[24].
This is incorrect. It was actually the Byzantines in the East who
saved the ancient learning of the Greeks in the original language, and
the first Latin texts to be used were translation from the Greek, in the
12th century, rather than, in most cases, the Arabic, which were only
used in default of these.
It is nevertheless true, and no myth, that the work of the Arabic
commentators, particularly Averroes, had a profound influence on the
scholastic philosophers of the Latin West in the thirteenth century.
Aristotle's Greek is terse and very difficult to understand. The work
of the Arabic commentators helped in explaining and clarifying
Aristotle's dense and apparently obscure thought. Thus Western
intellectual tradition owes a great debt to the Arabic scholars in terms
of understanding Aristotle's thought. In terms of the texts, however, these would have survived had the Arabic commentators never existed.
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_and_Propaganda#Lying_is_Permitted_to_Further_the_Cause_of_Islam

Natuurlijk heeft de islam wel dingen uitgevonden;
You forgot inventions like good old fashioned book burnings, a religion that kills for the crime of apostasy, kills its own children (now who else does that?) keeping women as property, suppressing freedom, slave traders, child marriages, child sex, beastiality, hair trigger riots for any imagined offense, and amputations with stonings. Whatever Satan has in his kitchen.

And above all: Islam invented Time Travel. Follow Islam and you are instantly back in the 7th Century.